Those dozen labors have inspired countless playwrights, poets, and philosophers throughout the centuries, not to mention Walt Disney Pictures. ![]() Yet Herakles, often called by his Roman name, Hercules, is known for everything else: slaying the man-eating birds of the Stymphalian marsh, the multiheaded Lernaean Hydra, and the Nemean lion, with its Kevlar-strength fur capturing the wild Erymanthian boar, the golden-antlered deer of Artemis, and the Minotaur’s father stealing the girdle of Hippolyta, the golden apples from the garden of the Hesperides, the flesh-eating mares of Diomedes, and the red cattle of the giant Geryon mucking the Augean stables in a single day and kidnapping the three-headed dog Cerberus from Hades. Murdering her children is all she would ever be known for-ask Medea.
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